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Patented Mar. 15, 1887.

J.F.BUZZELL.

FRICTION HINGE FOR-MIRRORS.

(No Model.)

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JOHN F. BUZZELL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM r. DAVIS,OF SAME PLACE.

FRICTION-HINGE FOR MIRRORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,555, dated March15, 1887.

Application filed August 18, 1886. Serial No. 211,183. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: bolts are provided with rectangular heads j,Be it known that I, JOHN F. BUZZELL, of which are formed to enter andfitinthe sockets Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of e e, thebolts being of such size that they can Massachusetts, have inventedcertain new and enter the slots f in said sockets. useful Improvementsin Friction-Hinges, of It will be seen that when the heads of the whichthe following is' a specification. boltsjj are in the sockets e e thebolts and the This invention has for its'objeet to provide mirror aresupported by the inclosing-frame, a frictionhinge adapted to pivotallyconnect and it will also be seen that the mirror may be a mirror orother frame or like object to a supremoved by lifting the rods jj fromthe open porting-frame, and hold the mirror at any deends of the socketse e. 6

sired angle or inclination, and also permit the The plates 9 9 may becaused by the screws ready removal of the mirror from the fixed 'i t tograsp the rods j j with any desired desupporting-frame, theinventionhaving special gree of pressure, and thus exertsufficient fricreferenceto toilet-mirrors which arepivoted tion on the rods to hold the mirrorat any dewithin inclosing-frames, so as to be capable of siredinclination. 6 swinging and assuming such angles as may suit It will beseen that this device is simple and the users convenience. cheap inconstruction and provides a conven- The invention consists in theimproved deient separable frictionhinge, whereby a mirvice which I willnow proceed to describe and ror or other like object may be quicklyapclaim. plied to and removed from its support. Of the accompanyingdrawings, forming a If desired, the plates 9 9 maybe applied to part ofthis specification, Figure lrepresents the inclosing-frame, and thesockets e e to a perspective View of my improved hinge. themirror-frame, in which case the sockets Fig, 2 representsa section online 00 m, Fig. 5. should be inverted from the position shown, 25 Fig. 3represents a section on line y y, Fig. 5. their open ends being atthebottom, so that Fig. 4 represents a section on line 2 2, Fig. 3. themirror would be removed by lifting it with Fig. 5 represents a rearelevation of a mirror the sockets thereto attached from the boltand itsinclosing-fraine. heads.

The same letters of reference indicate the I claim- 30 same parts in allthe figures. 1. The improved separable friction-hinge,

In the drawings, arepresentsamirror-frame, composed of a headed rod,adjustable clampand 12 represents the-inclosing-frame to which ing orfriction plates, between which said red the mirror-frame is pivoted. Tothe back of 'is clamped, and a socket formed to receive and theinclosing-franie are attached by screws 0 c fit the head of the rod, asset forth.

5 two plates, d d, on which are formed sockets 2. The combination of amirror or other like e 6, each open at one end, closed at its otherobject having separable friction plates atend, and provided with a slot,f, in its outer tached thereto, of headed rods clamped beside, extendingfrom its open end nearly toits tween said plates, a fixed frameinclosing the closed end. mirror, and having open-ended sockets at- 4oTo the'inirror-fran'ie a, I attach metal plates tached to it, saidsocket being formed to re 0 g g, the former being flat, and the latterhavceive the heads of said bolts, as set forth. ing a loop or socket, 2;Said plates are at- In testimony whereof Ihavesigned myname tached tothe frame a by screws 73 17, and have to this specification, in thepresence of two no connection with each other, excepting thatsubscribing witnesses, this 10th day of August,

5 which is afforded by said screws, the plates 1886.

being separable from each other when the 1 screws are loosened.

j j represent pivot bolts or rods, which are \Vitnesses: interposedbetween the plates 9 g, and are con- 0. F. BROWN,

50 tained in the loops 2 20f the plates Said A. D. HARRIsoN JOHN vF.BUZZELL.

